Impact
Real change happens when learning leads to action.
Every organization starts from a different place, with different goals, challenges, and opportunities. We partner with organizations to strengthen knowledge, build practical skills, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Explore examples of how we’ve worked alongside employers, municipalities, non-profits, businesses, and community organizations to improve accessibility, strengthen inclusion, and create measurable impact for the people and communities they serve.
What we’ve helped build:
Accessibility and Equity Audits and Plans
Sea Change is developing accessibility audit tools and plans to support employers across Nova Scotia to identify strengths, gaps, and strategies to address organization-wide barriers to accessibility.
Awareness and Capacity-Building
Nova Scotia’s Post-Secondary Accessibility Framework established a shared vision and commitments for accessibility in Nova Scotia’s post-secondary sector. Sea Change is leading the process to identify tensions and opportunities in post-secondary accessibility services; build a shared vision to increase the capacity of leaders, faculty, and staff; and create consistent and comprehensive resources to accelerate awareness, capacity and action.
Customer Service Strategy and Development
Sea Change led the development of a customer service strategy for the Registrar’s Office at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Focus groups with more than 100 staff members across multiple teams identified barriers, strengths, and opportunities for training and continuous improvement. We created four online learning modules including Service Mindset, Professional Communication, Intercultural Communication, and Stress & Time Management.
Customized Accessibility Training for IWK Health
In 2025, Sea Change worked with IWK Health to adapt existing training from the Accessibility Confident Employers (ACE) Project into customized modules that live within IWK’s learning management system. The goal is to make accessibility learning more integrated, relevant, and engaging for IWK staff. The first two focus areas—Accessibility Foundations and Accessible Communications—introduce core concepts and everyday practices that support inclusion across the organization. This collaboration helps ensure that accessibility is not just a policy, but a lived part of workplace culture at IWK.
ISANS Board Retreat- Strategic Planning
We facilitated a board retreat to kick off a new strategic planning process for the ISANS Board. Using a strength-based approach, board members identified what they’re proud of.
NS Department of Community Services, Child and Family Wellbeing
Sea Change facilitated knowledge exchanges to create opportunities for collaboration, so community mobilizers feel less isolated and more connected in their work across NS. We explored the 4 Pillars of Community Mobilization model to shift from program delivery to enabling community-led action so children, youth, and families feel supported by the community.
Queer Atlantic Business Hub
We built the Queer Atlantic Business Hub (QABH): a bilingual organization created with and for 2SLGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada. Now run by a board, the QABH supports queer entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada through training, events, and connections. Check out their website.
Research and Knowledge Mobilization
The Family-Centred and Trauma-Informed Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Nova Scotia project builds on previous research to provide strategic, evidence-based recommendations and strategies. Sea Change is playing a key role to facilitate multi-stakeholder learning events, create and implement a knowledge mobilization plan, and offer strategic advice to the research team.
THANS/211- Knowledge Exchange
In 2024, Sea Change facilitated knowledge exchanges in multiple locations across Nova Scotia between 211 and Transition House Association of Nova Scotia (THANS) members. The knowledge exchanges support a warm transfer between 211 and THANS members. The goal is that any phone number is the right number for someone who calls to get support for gender-based violence, and any other needs. If someone calls 211, they can be connected to a shelter, and if they call a shelter, but need support around employment or food, they can get that support from 211. The 211/THANS partnership aims to drive systemic change and improve support for vulnerable populations in Nova Scotia.
Unconscious Bias Training for Municipalities with AMANS
In 2025, Sea Change worked with the Association of Municipal Administrators of Nova Scotia (AMANS) to develop a self-paced online training that helps municipal staff and leaders better understand unconscious bias. The training looks at how our quick, often-unnoticed judgments—based on race, gender, ability, and more—can affect decisions about hiring, promotions, and how we treat others at work. Through four short, interactive modules, participants will learn to spot and interrupt bias, reflect on how it shows up in their own workplaces, and explore practical ways to foster more inclusive municipal environments. The course also includes discussion prompts and knowledge checks, making it a thoughtful mix of self-reflection and real-world application.”